@robertcathey

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Joined May 2009
Building a sovereign cloud strategy starts with open tools that eliminate proprietary lock-in. Discover the core architectural strategies for deploying resilient infrastructure in production. Read Best Practices with OpenInfra for Digital Sovereignty: openinfra.org/best-practices…
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Share your production experiences, architectural lessons, or open infrastructure strategies at OpenInfra Day North America. The CFP closes September 9 at 23:59 PT. Submit your proposal: sessionize.com/OpenInfra2026… #OpenInfra
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If you're not following what @ab415 has to say about the economics and strategic considerations in open source on Substack, go fix that. abbykearns.substack.com/p/th…
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The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word. Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this: "When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that." He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it. His point is something most people are too afraid to say. AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it? He also flagged something nobody is talking about. AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up. "Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue." And his final warning was the sharpest of all. "People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail." The AI hype crowd is very loud right now. Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen. Full interview here: thenewstack.io/torvalds-ai-p…
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"Agents are only as good as the data and semantics behind them, so the context layer, not the model, is the thing to watch right now"
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"Disregard" breaks Google is something I never contemplated. And I contemplate a lot of stuff.
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AI isn't going to kill tech jobs - it is going to redistribute them - we already seeing it. Net technical hiring is projected to increase 31% in 2026. Companies are prioritizing upskilling over external hiring. - LIVE from #OSSummit in Minneapolis
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I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.
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If AI can create sources from the binaries, does how we presently think about open source vs. proprietary matter anymore?
0%Nope; welcome to Dystopia
0%Probably; you can't scare
0%It's complicated
0%Llama still isn't really
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So, who's up for rebuilding the entire SDLC from the ground up with AI driving the car? 🙋🏼‍♂️
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Another day, another catastrophic exploit: CVE-2026-46300
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To the man at the gate 11 who confronted me because I was on a call, I hope your day gets better. You must be struggling with a heavy load. ☮️
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Robert Cathey retweeted
I've been writing on @OpenStack since day one. Now its 15 years later and it keeps on adding features that cloud operators need. Oh and even now - just as it was a decade ago, going after VMware users is still a primary target. “VMware escapees represent currently a lot of the new deployments that are coming to OpenStack right now,” @tcarrez general manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, told me networkworld.com/article/415…
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So many tokens consumed this week. #kubecon
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It’s official: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 26 is our biggest event yet. With 13,500+ attendees in Amsterdam, we’ve surpassed the size of a small town. From drones to a full-size glider on the keynote stage, we're keeping up the energy! Let's keep cloud native moving for Day 2! #KubeCon #CNCF #CloudNative
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Robert Cathey retweeted
Open source @Qdrant just raised $50M and what it means is that vector database (or what Andre Zayarni prefers to call the '..information retrieval layer for the AI age') is more relevant than ever before. With insights from Kamen Kanev (GlassDollar) and Herbert Turner (&AI) venturebeat.com/data/agents-… via @VentureBeat
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